“10 Questions” launches today

posted at 9:51 am on October 17, 2007 by Bryan

Today marks the start of a unique and experimental opportunity to directly ask the presidential candidates the questions that you want to ask them. It’s called 10 Questions, it’s a little bit like the YouTube debate, but better since CNN won’t be an intermediary, and here’s how it will work.

It’ll be divvied up in two rounds spanning two months, with the first round starting today. In Round 1, anyone with a video camera and the ability to upload to YouTube, MySpaceYahoo Video, or Blip.tv can submit a video question. To enter, upload your video question to one of these sites and tag it “10questions.” Be sure to give it a descriptive title so others can find it. And if you want, add additional tags that describe it further. The questions should be addressed to the candidates as a group, as opposed to any single candidate.

At the end of the first round, the questions will be collected from those sites and put on the 10 Questions site, where anyone can vote on which ones should be answered by the presidential candidates. In Round 2, the candidates tape their answers and upload them for judging. Round 2 begins on November 17, so you have until then to come up with a question, shoot it and submit it. 10 Questions ends on December 31.

I’ll post periodic reminders about 10 Questions here on Hot Air, to keep you updated and hopefully convince some of you to submit questions and then vote on the ones that have been submitted.

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I’m glad that Hot Air was chosen, but I have to say, I can’t properly express how low my hopes are for this.

I’m still not comfortable with the apparent fact that there’s not one honest-to-God conservative in the entire country to run for President, and now I have to accept that there’s not one moderator who can handle the job properly.

I’m leaning this way as well. Until this new video interactivity matures significantly, all I can see is more snowmen, Obama girls, or worse yet, some child asking “boxers or briefs” and actually wanting a serious answer. I understand HotAir wanting to be on the cutting edge with this, but the few serious vids will be drowned out by the idiots for a good while yet. I hope more than one of the candidates acts like a grown-up and flat refuses to reply to some of the questions.

A YouTubeTop (leftist/juvenile) event, sponsored by the New York Times (leftist/senile) and PMSNBC (off the charts leftist/juvenile) — they won’t be setting the bar low; they’ll just leave it laying there on the ground.

Yeah, no offense to Darth Executor, but the question has murder, abortion, and a religious minority in it so it might be little controversial:) Maybe Sarah Silverman can make a funny joke out of it though.

All pretty lame questions because they just allow the candidates to give the carefully scripted answers they’ve focus grouped to death. Where are the questions that would throw the candidates off balance?

For example, Mr/Ms. candidate, how would faith fit into your administration…….

Yeah, no offense to Darth Executor, but the question has murder, abortion, and a religious minority in it so it might be little controversial:) Maybe Sarah Silverman can make a funny joke out of it though.

terryannonline on October 17, 2007 at 11:38 AM

Who are you kidding? Silverman can’t make a funny joke to save her life. (Sorry, just find her really irritating and sooo not funny.)

Here’s one for Rudy and/or Fred if someone more ambitious than I wants to ask it:

“The federal assault weapon ban expired in 2004; President Bush said he would renew it if it reached his desk, and Governor Romney also supports such a ban. Would you support renewing it or a similar ban?”

Ok here is my question I will post it in a few days and try to get credit for it from my media production class.

As a former skilled trades man in Californian, and seeing first hand the impact of illegal immigration have had in the building trades. They under cut and drive down American workers wages. With the constant invasion of armed forces coming across our southern border, and the numerous murders, rapes and molestations of our citizens and children by these invading illegals. Will any of you actually say “no more” and place our military on our souithern boarder to defend our nation from this attack on our people, our wages, our way of life, our health system, our ejection system and the American dream.
Which I have been losing sight of ever since 1986, and the shamnesty debacle that was forced on us all. And to you few that have a track record of wanting more shamnesty. Like you Mr. McCain and to those who ran a sanctuary city Mr. Giuliani why should I believe anything you say on this subject, and to Mr. Switchback I mean Brownback, were you only against the senate shamnesty bill because you saw it was going to lose?

And to Mr. Tancredo and Mr. Hunter how can Americans like my self volunteer to help build the fence. Because it looks like that’s the only way it’s ever going to get done.

I anticipate that nothing but childish silliness will result from this YouTube thing. We need serious questions by certified adults.

You didn’t think that 36-year-old who asked the “transparency question” was an adult? She seemed very nice but there were posters tacked up on the bedroom wall behind her. How many 36-year-olds still have that?

It’s a very good question to guage the candidate’s character. Would they be secretive and let the public remain unaware until the crisis was at hand or would they be up front with the facts.

It’s my trap question. They have to answer that they would tell the truth right away but in reality you know it might not be a good responsible idea. They would have to consider the chaos they could cause. Suicides, crazy lawlessness…. You know good ol end times stuff! :)

During your Presidency if scientists told you privately that an Asteroid the size of Texas was on a collision course with the earth in 10 years would you inform the American people?

Drtuddle on October 17, 2007 at 1:24 PM
What a softball question! Nobel Laureate Al Gore has stated that we only have 8 years left before the planet is destroyed so it doesn’t matter what happens by then!

highhopes on October 17, 2007 at 1:41 PM

Why change the timeframe to 5 years? Leave it at ten and any answer other than that there is no Asteroid of that size within the galaxy that could reach the earth by 2017 (the end of their second Presidential term)would indicate they do not agree with Al Gore’s forcast of doom.